Did you know that climate change is threatening children’s education around the world? Globally, extreme weather events are closing schools for days and sometimes weeks. While the greatest impact is felt in Asia and Africa, a recent estimate suggests that closures due to heat are increasing quickly in the United States as well. UNICEF studies reveal that children today are experiencing twice as many days of extreme heat compared to their grandparents, with the gap being greatest for children in low and middle-income countries. Great progress has been made globally in school enrollment in recent decades and literacy rates have improved as well, but recent events including wars and the pandemic have contributed to rising numbers of out-of-school children, especially in the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries (data from Save the Children). Save the Children published climate models revealing that a child born in 2020 is projected to experience nearly three times as many river floods and twice as many wildfires over their lifetimes compared with a person born in 1960. If we profess to care about the future of our own children and those around the planet, we must advocate for short and long-term solutions to improve learning conditions in schools by retrofitting older buildings and constructing new ones using the many technological advances already available, and by using simpler strategies like insulation, rooftop plantings and providing shade trees on school property. Rightfully, protecting our common home and its inhabitants is part of Catholic Social Teaching.